The first two stars from the 1917 edition of the flag are accounted for in City Council records from 1917, but the others are not. The first star represents the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 .

Either New York has surrendered to some foreign entity or pranksters have bleached flags on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. Whatever happened, authorities are as stumped as we are as to why the U.S ...

The 51-star flag across from White House, spotted from Lafayette Square on June 5, 2025. “Greenland makes a lot of sense for America, from a strategic perspective,” said Lambert, ...

Arkansas was the first state in the U.S. to produce diamonds, hence the large diamond in the center of its state flag. The 25 white stars represent Arkansas being the 25th state to join the Union.

It’s been months since Pat and Diane Tregarthen took down the red, white and blue decorations from their Redondo Beach home. But two paper flags remain. The flags, printed off the Internet on 8 ...

The American flag, of course, had 13 red and white strips and a blue field with stars in it. The Confederate flag had three bars, red, white, red and a blue field with stars on it.

Middle East history experts told PolitiFact that the blue-and-white flag with a Star of David represents the Zionist movement, not Palestine. From 1922 to 1948, the Palestinian territory was under ...

For the first time, our nation's American flag was flown in battle, on this day in history, Sept. 3, 1777, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware. Here's the background.